[Coco] CoCo4! 50% done!

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 03 February 2014 22:28:32 Matthew Stock did opine:

> Nick,
> 
> Here's one source.  You need to also get the programming tools from
> Altera to program the FPGA, but you'd need to do that with any
> solution.  There are other sources as well.
> 
> http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&Categ
> oryNo=165&No=83

Which comes to $350 CAD

> http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/de1/unv-de1-board
> .html

The board is $200, software licensing cost is a secret.  I started to 
register there once, 2 years ago according the autosaved login firefox gave 
me, backed out when I saw the price, and have had to add their IP to a 
mailfilter rule, several different times because they change it, to get rid 
of the twice daily spam. Requests to turn off the spam machine just doubled 
it.

IOW, screw them, and the camel that rode in on them.
 
>   -Matt
> 
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Nick Marentes 
<nickma at optusnet.com.au>wrote:
> > Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at ...> writes:
> > > The DE-1 is real and already has CoCo3FPGA ported to it.  Several of
> > > us have been running FPGA CoCos on them for a couple years now.  I
> > > guess I'm a little lost as to why this new board is preferable?
> > > It seems to be fairly equivalent except that CoCo3FPGA isn't ported,
> > > so you can't just install a premade CoCo3 image and go (like you can
> > > with the DE-1 right now).
> > > 
> > > > If it can emulate these 8Mhz 16bit computers, surely it's gooid
> > > > enough
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > > > emulate a 1.79Mhz CoCo3 and then a bit more.
> > > 
> > > The DE-1 has been emulating a CoCo 3 at 20+Mhz for some time.. again
> > > not sure what is compellingly different about the MIST?  I must be
> > > missing something, sorry not trying to be a PITA.
> > 
> > Ok then. Where can I buy one and how much?
> > 
> > Strange that if it is already available and low cost that few people
> > have bought one. There should be no more discussions of a CoCo3/4
> > since it already exists.
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > (I do like the compact design of the Mist and it could be made to fit
> > in a CoCo case with room to spare)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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